If you don't work on important problems, it's not likely that you'll do important work.
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I need to discuss science vs. engineering. Put glibly: In science if you know what you are doing you should not be doing it. In engineering if you do not know what you are doing you should not be doing it.
— Richard Hamming The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
タグ: science-vs-engineering, science, engineering
When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did Shannon in. After information theory, what do you do for an encore? The great scientists often make this error. They fail to continue to plant the little acorns from which the mighty oak trees grow. They try to get the big thing right off. And that isn't the way things go. So that is another reason why you find that when you get early recognition it seems to sterilize you.
タグ: sterilize, shannon, scientists, science, recognition, reason, problems, information-theory, famous, encore, claude-shannon, claude-elwood-shannon, claude-e-shannon
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